Every year since 1998, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences has handed out a Grammy Award for the Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical. It's a clunky title, especially since the practice — taking music that was previously composed or recorded and making something new out of it — was hugely popular with classical audiences in the mid-19th century and beyond, when composers like Liszt and Busoni repurposed opera tunes into virtuosic paraphrases and fantasies. But the award recognizes remixers as artists, even though they trade in pre-existing material, and that's good. Early on, only the winners' names — Frankie Knuckles, David Morales, Club...

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